Experdize Cantonese Basic Match - Extra

How to play: the board deals each word twice — once as its traditional characters, once as its Jyutping or its English. Tap a tile, then tap its partner: a pair goes in, pays 100 points, and is said aloud in Cantonese. Every pair you make without a mistake multiplies the next one, up to five times over, and a wrong guess counts a mistake and puts the run back to nothing — the board ends only when every pair is matched. Clear it and the clock stops; each deck keeps its own best time. Nine decks of 210 words in all, written from what Hong Kong actually says rather than from Mandarin in traditional characters — you eat with 食, drink with 飲, look with 睇 and shut a door with 閂, and the Verbs deck is where those part company most sharply. Six tones is the hard one, and harder than any Mandarin board: it deals whole families of one syllable in all six tones — si1 詩, si2 史, si3 試, si4 時, si5 市, si6 事 — and three of the six are level tones told apart by pitch height alone, which is a thing an English ear has never been asked to hear. A pair already made stays on the board faded; tap it to hear the word again.